Definition of digest Digest

/dajʤɛˈst/ - [dayjest] - di•gest

We found 39 definitions of digest from 6 different sources.

What does digest mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: digests
digest - a periodical that summarizes the news
		periodical a publication that appears at fixed intervals
digest - something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
		compilation
		compendium, collection a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work
Verb digests, digesting, digested
digest - put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
		endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up
		countenance, permit, let, allow consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"
		live with, swallow, accept believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?"
		hold still for, stand for tolerate or bear; "I won't stand for this kind of behavior!"
		bear up endure cheerfully; "She bore up under the enormous strain"
		take lying down suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively; "I won't take this insult lying down"
		take a joke listen to a joke at one's own expense; "Can't you take a joke?"
		sit out endure to the end
		pay bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action; "You'll pay for this!"; "She had to pay the penalty for speaking out rashly"; "You'll pay for this opinion later"
		suffer feel pain or be in pain
digest - convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products"
		ingest, consume, take in, have, take engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
		process, treat subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill"
		stomach bear to eat; "He cannot stomach raw fish"
		predigest digest (food) beforehand
digest - make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary"
		condense, concentrate
		abbreviate, abridge, foreshorten, shorten, contract, reduce, cut shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"
		capsule, capsulise, capsulize, encapsulate enclose in a capsule
		telescope make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play"
digest - become assimilated into the body; "Protein digests in a few hours"
		digest soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture
		change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
digest - arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information"
		get the picture, grok, savvy, grasp, apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
digest - soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture
		decompose, break down, break up separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
digest - soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture
		disintegrate break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died"
digest - systematize, as by classifying and summarizing; "the government digested the entire law into a code"
		systematise, systematize, systemise, systemize arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge"

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Wiktionary

digest (Noun)
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
digest (Noun)
A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
digest (Noun)
Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
digest (Verb)
To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
digest (Verb)
To separate the food in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
digest (Verb)
To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
digest (Verb)
To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
digest (Verb)
To undergo digestion.
digest (Verb)
To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

digest (v. t.)
To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
digest (v. t.)
To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
digest (v. t.)
To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
digest (v. t.)
To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
digest (v. t.)
Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
digest (v. t.)
To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
digest (v. t.)
To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
digest (v. t.)
To ripen; to mature.
digest (v. t.)
To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
digest (v. i.)
To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
digest (v. i.)
To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
digest (v. t.)
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
digest (v. t.)
A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

digest
To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to continue to exist or occur without interference; accept or undergo, often unwillingly.
digest
To convert food into absorbable substances for the body.
digest
To arrange and integrate in the mind.
digest
To make more concise (e.g. the contents of a book or an article).

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

digest
di-jest′, v.t. to dissolve food in the stomach: to soften by heat and moisture: to distribute and arrange: to prepare or classify in the mind: to think over.—v.i. to be dissolved in the stomach: to be softened by heat and moisture.—adv. Digest′edly.—n. Digest′er, one who digests: a close vessel in which by heat and pressure strong extracts are made from animal and vegetable substances.—n. Digestibil′ity.—adj. Digest′ible, that may be digested.—n. Diges′tion, the dissolving of the food in the stomach: orderly arrangement: exposing to slow heat, &c.—adj. Digest′ive, pertaining to digestion: promoting digestion.—adv. Digest′ively. [L. digerĕre, digestum, to carry asunder or dissolve—di (= dis), asunder, and gerĕre, to bear.]
digest
dī′jest, n. a body of laws collected and arranged, esp. the Justinian code of civil laws. [L. digesta, neut. pl. of digestus, pa.p. of digerĕre, to carry apart, to arrange.]